Less Magick, More Muscle: Arrowhead’s Showdown Effect

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The last we heard of The Showdown Effect, the new side-scrolling and cartoony shootybangbang game from the makers of the reliably silly Magicka, was back in April. Now, it’s spooling up its beta-testing mini-gun, and hopes to lure in passers-by by revelling shamelessly in as many action movie cliches as it can conjure up. CONJURE LIKE IN MAGICKA.

Here’s yon footage of a man with nothing to lose, an outlaw, a renegade, roaming the badlands, one day from retirement, etc:

If you’re interested in the beta, you should get yourself over here and sign up. And apparently “if you get 3 friends to sign up using your referral URL, you will get guaranteed access to the beta.” WITCHCRAFT.

Later today (oh man, I should be specific – at 7pm GMT / 11am PST) there’ll also be Twitch.tv livestream of the game up. Go here to watch that, if you like.

Here’s some earlier footage with dev commentary too, in case you’re having a dither:

My mothers neighbour is working part time and averaging $7000 a month. I’m a single mum and just got my first paycheck for $5532! I still can’t believe it. I tried it out cause I got really desperate and now I couldn’t be happier. Heres what I do..See More

Oh wow that was odd. I was doing my thing flicking through sites and spotted this on the front page of TwitchTV (On Paradox Interactive) and said “Oh wow this game looks good” then refreshed RPS and saw this post, convenient.

Watching now and the game looks very interesting, similar concept to Cobalt which Mojang is publishing, but with a very different visual style. Visually it’s like TF2, and the gameplay is a lot faster than Cobalt. Lots of platforming. Looks like a lot of fun. LET ME IN THE BETA!

If anyone feels like using my referral link, feel free. If you don’t want to, you don’t need to. I have other friends I can bother besides you guys, as great as you are. If this really is a dirty thing to do, feel free to shun and scold me. You can also block me for life, if you choose, but that would profoundly sadden me.

Was planning on signing up anyway so I decided to hit your link. After I confirmed I discovered what that was for – I can believe they’re stringing people along with the promise of beta access to form some gigantic link-spamming network. Not classy, Paradox. Not classy at all.